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Not TOO much loss tho, right? I thought the cooling tower design helped maximize cooling and minimize loss as steam.

Beyond Gen X, does anyone younger consider BMW a luxury brand?

Exactly. This is not a law to protect people, this is a law to protect entrenched special interests (Reservation and State-owned casinos).

Post-Jobs Apple seems paralyzed and unable to commit to any big moves. It is impossible to overstate the success of the iPhone, but there are so many recent examples where they dip…

It sounds like you don't use Oracle, Oracle uses you.

Costco's genius is in building and maintaining trust with their members. In the age of private equity takeovers and the MBA-enshitification of pretty much every product and service…

I’m completely against factory farming, confinement barns, etc and always avoid meat produced this way. But I do wonder what you mean when you say “cruelty” in the context of cattl…

Are new H1Bs a thing anymore? Since the fee went up to $100k, I’m not aware of any companies still sponsoring hires who need a new H1B

I'm not trying to downplay their accomplishments, but how much of their scientific advances from the 40s-60s were due to capturing ex-Nazi tech (and scientists) or stealing from th…

So in this version of the future, everyone lives in government housing?

> I don't know what comes after, but when you combine this with the Iran war it's going to be closer to economic depression. I follow your extrapolation in the first part, but this…

Ah, bingo, yes! I should have been more specific in my comment. Perceptual hashing allowsfor higher similarity scores between similar looking images. Lots of cool techniques to exp…

The actual screenshot isn’t sent, some hash is generated from the screenshot and compared against a library of known screenshots of ads/shows/etc for similarity. Not super tough to…

How are you monitoring the meeting minutes? Would you open source this?

Are you thinking of “The Iceberg Hermit”? I read that book as well in my early teen years.

Not necessarily wrong, but I suspect people likely don’t like that you cited a ChatGPT response.

I’m not sure I follow. So, are you saying that wealth will become completely concentrated at the top and the rest of us are obsolete, out of work and broke? That seems unlikely. Wh…

How do we know this is the bottom?

Offshoring (India + LATAM) with a side of h1b. Offshoring is by far the biggest culprit. Plenty of Jr/Mid roles hiring…but not US based.

The h1b program can essentially be eliminated tomorrow. Trump could theoretically make h1b visas non-transferable, charge a high annual renewal, etc.

> Not even proper healthcare is guaranteed. …except it is. Health insurance is available on a sliding scale based on income and essentially free for most low income people.

Well said. I’ve often been able to trick myself into thinking I’ve learned something, especially if it is somewhat intuitive. But unless I practically apply what I learned, my rete…

Said another way: “being too early is the same as being wrong”

It seems like they are using a more sophisticated way to determine location (App Store download county, etc) not just IP.